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think thdr daughters do love them. They will
think this when they cannot remember ever
TO have had q confidential interchange of
thoughts, aspirations and secrets, such as we
have only with those we love and fully trust
They cannot remember when they had
caress or anything but formal kiss; and
yet they think their daughters love them
Apply these tests: We confide in those we
love. Does your daughter reveal her heart
to your We like to be with those we love.
Does your daughter long for your compan-
ionship? Does she really enjoy being with
you? Will she forsake the society of Others
to be with you? Ifyour daughter has loved
you and contided in you from infancy, and
found in you that true friend that she ought
to find. do you think she will forget all this
and 60 contrary to your wishes? She will
not fall in love, but will enter into love de-
liberately, and her father, who has her con-
fidence, can counteract the leading if he sees
ut. When young man comes to steal her
heart he will find the old gentleman at
home. If he wants that heart he must ask
for it, and satisfy all parties concerned of his
ability to treasure it. II he be sneak thief
he will soon be gone. If he be true knight
he will enter upon the conquest with q
manly courage and bearing that are them
selves evidence Of his worthiness.-Ohtld
Culture.
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PLAYFUL SQUIRRELS.
A Remarkable Pair Of Frolicsome Pets
and Their Antics.

A Remarkable Pair Of Frolicsome Pets
and Their Antics.
Two tame gray squirrels are the favorite
pets of an animal lover on Franklin avenue,
Scranton, Pa. The squirrels run about the
house like two kittens, and are obedient to
their master every time he tells them to 20
to their cage. He often takes them about
town with him, to their apparent pleasure
and satisfaction. Whenever he tells them
that they can 90 along, they skip up hislegs
and crawl into the pockets of his sack coat,
where they nestle down until he enters
store or saloon. Then he orders them tc
come out, and tn ey hurry from his pockets
and caper about the room until he gets
ready to leave. Their antics and their obe-
dience interest and amuse everybody who
sees them. Each squirrel has his own par.
ticular pocket to get into, and they have
been so well trained that neither ever tries to
get into the pocket that belongs to the other.
When the gentleman wears heavy over
coat. he sometimes permits both of them to
cuddle down together, when they appear to
be very happy indeed.-Fitsburg Dispatch.
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Z the bes. modern yachts, IT is lighted

Of the best modern yachts, II is lighted
with electricity, and he has an arrange.
ment Of wires in the rigging that makes
II possible for him to illumine the entire
craft Of an evening till II shines and
sparkles with variegated flame and Jets
of fire in away that would put Aladdin's
tabled palace to shame. This club has Q
regatta every year in which the boats
race from Larchmont near New York city
to New London. The prizes consist Of
four cups, three based upon the superi.
ority Of the yachts according to their
making the distance under . system Of
time allowance, by which the bigger boats
give the smaller ones long starts; and
the fourth is given to the yacht that makes
the best time irrespective Of allowance.
Jay Gould's Atalanta always gets the lat
ter cup, and the best of the three others
- we'll. 1t remains to be seen whether
he can retain his superiority against the
Alva, but 1t seems probable that he will,
for the Atalanta was built entirely for
speed, Gould ordering that considerations
Of comfort should be secondary, while
Vanderbilt had convenience rather than
racing in view when he gave the specif.
cations for his boat The Alvs, by the
way, cost over three quarters Of million
dollars, . pretty sum 10 expend for .
toy.
Steam yachting - . pastime was
fathered by clergyman; and although 1t
is probable that eventually It would
have found its place as the exclusive
sport of the wealthy, yet Rev. John A.
Aspinwall may be considered historically
responsible for its present growth. The
first steam yacht in the country was built
by his father and called Fire Fly. 1t was
about fifty feet long and constructed
originally on q curious design which
made the propelling instrument paddle
wheel working in the very middle of the
boat in water-tight box. This idea
proved failure and the design had to be
modified. The interest aroused BY the
Fire Fly set young John Aspinwall to
work, and although Q boy in his teens
he transformed flat-bottomed boat into
steam yacht, having as an engine con-
trivance that generated steam by the use
of alcohol lamps. This was by no means
the last boat built by Mr.. Aspinwall, and
as he made year after year better and
better craft public interest in steam
yachts increased. Jacob Lorillard was
one of the first wealthy men to adopt the
new form of recreation, and since 1868 he
has had constructed for his use as many
as eighteen yachts. From time to time
he has sold the old ones, rarely using
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We were anchored in the great bay be.
tween 1sla Margarita and the mainland
of Venezuela. Before US was Coche-
all sand and salt-behind us Cubagua,
like ,he, except that cactii, thorny
shrubs, goats and the ruins of an ancient
Spanish town were added. We had alb.
solutely nothing to do but to allow to
sink deep into our souls realizing sense
that our treasure-hunting expedition
was "wild-goose chase"
One day q Cubagus fisherman, from
whom I bought lot Of fish for my crew,
varied the dreary monotony Of my exist
ence with an invitation to dine with him
and his family. They were not only
fishers, but manufacturers. In the proper
season they made a sort of cocoanut oil
soap, for use In salt water, th.t always
looked blue-molded and smelled worse
than asafetida.
Their dwelling was in two parts; q
wet-weather place, stone. walled, well
rooted and without windows, where the
smell reconciled one to the darkness and
the darkness rendered one Indifferent to
the smell; and dry.weather place. clay
foored and covered with q thick mat Of
dried branches to exclude the sun. In
wet years they could not live in this lat.
ter part of the house more than fifty
weeks out of the fifty-two, but when I
was there 1t had been the family home for
almost two years. There they pursued
their household avoc ations by day and
swung their hammocks at night, and
there 1t was that we took dinner. In
the centre of 1t was a table, the legs
of which were driven deep into the clay
floor. At one end was raised hearth, with
some embers glowing upon it, before
which, in sloping position, stood .
stone trough. A young girl, with very
beautiful eyes, dressed in something like
a short Mother Hubbard" of white mus
lin-without trimmings, belt or aounces,
however-rubbed up and down in the
trough a big stone, MASKING and grind
ing grains of corn, already lye-soaked to
soften and peel them, to make the bread
for our dinner. Half dozen hens flew
up to the trough, alternately, snatched
mouthfuls of the bruised grain and kept
up continuous cackling. When the
girl had handful mashed fine enough
she made 1t into ffattened ball
and set it up on edge near the
embers to warm and get ashes and
the smell of wood smoke on it.
Even that, however, promised some-
thing better than arepa, the common
bread of the country, which is made of the
grated tibrous part of the yucca root
after the poison has been soaked out of
it-but which can be made just as we'll of
any very hard sawdust. Anybody with
quartz-crusher jaws and tin throat
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could eaL arypa and think it might be
worse.
Five NANCY, gaunt ours mixed them
selves among our legs, and had desultory
skirmishes with three lean but plucky
pigs that were on terms of great famil-
iarity with the family. Their frequent
combats were noisy, but the butting-
matches between the pet fawn and two
sociable kids were quiet and unobjection.
able, except when somebody got tripped
up by them and fell over q dog or two,
or pig.
The corn-grinding girls mother, who
sat all the time in a strange saw-buck.
like chair not more than six inches from
the ground, told ten-year-old barefooted
boy to wash the Dishes He kicked pig
away from roofing among the breakfast
dishes, which were lying in corner, and
carried an srmful of them down to the
beach, two rods away. First he rubbed
each one with handful of sand. Then
he took pile Of them between his arms
and waded out to his middle in the bay,
where he swung them to and fro in the
water to get rid of the sand. 1t was the
only time ever saw anybody wade into
the dishpan to wash dishes. Finally he
set them up edgewise in the sun to dry.
The principal dish at table was san
oOchs. A can oOehs is stew, and may be
made Of fish, flesh or fowl. Sometimes
It 10 good, but generally it makes you
wish 1t had been made of one of the
other things. This one was of goat, and
was really the least offensive form in
which -be-sufficiently-d de-
tested meat has ever been served to me.
There was SO much garlic. in it that no
taste OF the goat was perceptible, and 80
much qji-a fendishly hot Chill pepper
that one didn't notice the garlic par
ticularly. When one is sufficiently accus-
toned to the al to feel confidence that
1t will not melt the gold filling in teeth,
1t becomes rather agreeable.
With the San cochs we had some superb
boiled yams-much better than any DO
tatoes ever ate-and lyackS-I don't
know whether that word is rightly
spelled or not, for my Spanish diction.
aries ignore It, but that is the way 1t
sounds. It 10 probably derived from Va,
. bundle. It signifies . little bundle OF
an ounce or two Of some finely com.
minuted stun, done mp In Q bit of
plsntain leaf and boiled. You never
know beforehand, and seldom after eat
Ing II. what your kaah is composed o.
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PRESERVING MOUNT VERNON.
The Home Of Warrington Being Kept q
. Model Farm.

The Home Of Warrington Being Kept a.
. Model Farm.
Mount Vernon, under the management of
lady regents, IL now a model farm. In the
dining-room 10 the sideboard used by the
family and returned to Mount Vernon by
Mrs; Robert +; Lee, the greatgranddaughter
Washington died is fitted up throughout
with the original furniture. The vice regent
for Virginia Ii Mrs. Emma Read Ball, whose
husband is Q grandson Of Washington's
niece. The estate, which includes 200 acres,
Is kept In fine state of cultivation. The
revenue comes from the sale Of flowers and
sweet milk, which latter is sold BY the glass
In the family kitchen. Under the conditions
of transfer the mansion must be kept in re-
pair, but II must not be changed In the
Hover garden the box plant which edges the
walks is preserved in the exact design Of the
hedges planted by Warrington. The four
big sweet shrub trees, given to him BY Jsf.
ferson, still grow in beauty where they were
planted 20 long ago. The guide book to the
Bryant Johnston.-ExcAangs.
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YIELDING TO CONVICTION.
A Texan Makes Restitution Of $500,
which He Acquired Dishonestly.

A Texan Makes Restitution Of o5,BOO,
Which He Acquired Dishonestly.
At one Of his Mortified meetings on Mon
day, Mr.. Moody, who was preaching about
Prayer" said: MAN may pray like saint,
butt but if he has II in his pocket not acquired hon.
make restitution if he expects ever to have
God hear his prayer" Thereupon a mer-
chant from Dallas, Tex, rose in the audi
ence and told story that emphasized this
point. He had, he said, got dishonesty from
men in his business some Is, 500, and had
built house with the money. Then Mr..
Moody happened along and preached on this
subject of restitution and the merchant was
present II heard you," he said, pointing to
Mr.. Moody, "and l went out into the street
conscience stricken. went straight home
and told my wife that we must sell that
We held an auction. and our carpets, our
laces, our furniture all left us, and with the
proceeds we made restitution" The man
then told how he and his wife started again
in life with nothing, and how he had pros
Pered. His credit. his prosperity had never
been 90 good.
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one for period longer than one
season. He has two on his hands at
present, the Reva and Daring. Mr..
Aspinwall has built or had built from his
designs thirteen steam yachts, and the
boat he now owns is the Sentinel, a
beautiful vessel well adapted for every
purpose for which yachts are intended,
not only speed, in which it easily attains
fifteen knots an hour, but comfort, in
which respect 1t is excelled by few even
of the greater craft. The Sentinel is
100 feet long and is made of iron.
1t is curious feature of steam yachts
that although they cost tremendously to
build, It is seldom that one sells for half
what the owner paid for it originally.
A member of the American Club speak
ing of this gave the writer the following
explanation:
"You see," he said, "when q man
makes up his mind to have q yacht he
naturally wants one that shall be after
his own ideas. One man wants speed,
another comfort; one wants bath. room
arranged according to particular notion;
another has an idea that library is just
what will make boat perfect for him;
and q third wants to have rosewood
trimmings on the companionwsy, or
hammered brass ON the keel, or some
other such nonsense. The result is that
NO boat already built will suit him. But
after ell it is fashion that DEGREES that a
man must have his own individual boat.
It is not so good form to own q second
hand affair, you know. By buying boat
that another man has used you tacitly
confess that you are not equal to getting
one Of your own, and men who are snx-
ious to keep up with the fashion would
a. soon think of buying another fellows
steam yacht a. woman would of buy
ing an elegant dress secondhand. So
you see that drives the prices for ready.
made craft away down, and for $4,000
. fellow might get very fair craft, just
- good for all practical purposes -
man needs. And after that If ne wants
to he can spend few thousands advan-
tageously in ripping up the characteristic
furnishings and replacing them with
others that will make his boat look quite
like another craft to the impractical eye"
When the public learns that very
fair craft may be got for $4,000 there
will probably b suoh . bull market for
steam yachts - 70 send the prices up
again whore they belong. Forty thou.
sand y such bagatslls for steamboat
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STEAM YACHTS.
FLnAsURE BOATS THAT NEED A
FORTUNE TO MAINTAIN THEM.
T HAT can I get . reason

AAA VSA SOt IoooOA,
- ably good yacht for! !!
This question was asked the other day
by would-be swell, young fellow who
has been shifting about from one side Of
the market to the other in Wall street
for few me nths past and invariably
managed to be on the right side at the
right moment. It has resulted in build
ing him up . fortune SO suddenly that
he has not had time to do anything but
watch 1t grow, and now It is incumbent
upon him to spend 1t in order to evi-
dence his prosperity. He knew that
nothing would do this more effectively
than the purchase of steam yacht, for
that toy 10 the last luxury that men of
great wealth secure for their pleasure.
When city and country residences have
been built and furnished on palatial
plan, when the poor-house is hidden for
ever behind pile of millions, when the
title money King" has been applied to
him, then does the man of wealth look
about him to see If he can spare enough
from his resources to buy yacht. The
reply that this young man got, therefore,
startled him:
"Oh, for $3.50 you can get . very
fair thing, If you don't want big boat"
The young man remarked that he did
not care to purchase Cunsrder, and
then retired to the solitude of his own
thoughts and concluded to devote few
more months to getting on the right side
Of the market before he called boat
builder into consultation. He saw clearly
that steam yachting was truly dis
tinctive enjoyment and sport of the
tremendously rich; that while in other
respects Q man of moderate fortune or
even q good salary might successfully
initiate the features of life that are
generally supposed to typify wealth,
that he might dress as we'll as Wander
bilt, 60 to the opera like an Astor and
live on Fifth avenue like a Gould, there
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could be no fooling with steam yacht :;
that that form of ostentstion could not be
shammed. For 1t is the most exclusive
Kind of recreation that the world has
ever known. 1t has only arisen within
few years, or since men have sue.
ceeded in piling up wealth to such .
height a. to justify and make necessary
the discovery of new form of pleasure
that should eclipse anything that had
preceded it.
And yet 1t is quite possible for men of
moderate means to get much of the fun
out Of steam yachting If they will aban-
don all hope of being in style while they
are about 1t. For the immense expense
of boats of this class comes mainly in
the furnishings. A small boat, say
thirty-ive feet long, may be obtained for
two or three thousand dollars and be
quite capable Of taking several people
ON pleasure cruises ON rivers, in bays
and sounds, and along the coasts. The
same boat adapted to the requirements
OF fashionable yachting could be made
to cost upward Of 5000 without any
more thought than q little word
whispered into the ear of the builder;
and even then its size would prevent 1t
from taking anything more than very
Insignificant place among the pleasure
craft of its class. Even the Stiletto,
which is usually spoken of as ''the little
Stiletto," is ninety-four feet long over
all, and ninety on the water-line. And
1t was very expensive boat to build,
too. There are few steam yachts
whose wster-line measurement does not
much exceed fifty feet that take re-
spectacle place among the toys of the
wealthy, but their expense is vastly
greater than their size would seem to
indicate. Among these are the Rover,
owned by Morris K. Jessup, Of Newport,
Il. l., and the Xsntho, owned by J. B.
Watkins, Of Lake Charles, La. These
are good boats, and with their costly fur.
nishings required big sums of money to
make ready for use. But 1t il not the
initial expense alone that marks the aris-
tocracy Of steam yachts - Q means Of
sT ort and amusement. It must cost at
least 800 month to run the Rover dur
lug the season without counting what
ever expense the owner may see ft to
incur in the entertaining of guests.
There 10 only one steam yachting a.
ISOLATION In America-the American
Yacht Club Of New York. The boats
that hy IL colors include nearly al the
great yachts Of the country, Commodore
Elbridgs Gerry b q the head Of the club,
and his boaA The Electro, = one Of the
handsonsst and most sumptuousiy ap
pointed IN II Asst. Like come othsrs
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The Last Question ON kxamin.tion d.

We were arranged on the floor in front Of
the visitors on examination day to be looked
at, and answer such questions g they or the
teachers saw tit to ask.
Where was John Rogers burnt to death p
voice.
couldn't tell.
1.-The next"
Joshua knows," said . little girl at the
foot fthe class -, -.
"Wsll, said the teacher, III Joshua knows,
solemn tnd wise.
This ives the Lest question. We had NIB
srty TO make Ill the noiss We pleased fR I've
minutsA and thsn 90 homs.-Jesraal - -
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Following the Golden Rule.

General Cluseret the Communist, relates
that after the Versailles troops entered Paris
he was saved by priest to whom he had
gwen facilities to see Archbi shop Dafboy in
his prison. He knocked at his door and said.
you recognize me? You know what
are at home" He provided M. Clussret With
costume, kept him for Eve
months, and with the aid of his order got
him safely across the frontier into Belgium.
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Sarah BeFnhardt d said to have ahocked
her dear Paris By smphsticsliy deciSrins:
~ cannot play any moro In Paris. You
Paridans are 700 poor. Ike butter ON nv
broad. eo VIII have 70 return to America
Her pk tee. which shei b pleassd 70 call an
AA!9s.icn blsek 81. has esen ansd loofF. lbs
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A Lost Landmark.

Berlin has lost one of its most interesting
landmarks in the demolition of Bouche's
Blumengaren. In former years this garden
was the rendezvous Of the most distinguished
literary lights Of Berlin. The geographer;
Karl Ritter, used 70 rcd his proofS in one Of
Vailed In it. shady paths and prepared his
bun4oY oormOna.
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TROPICAL DINING.
HOW PEOPLE LIVE ON THE COAST
OF VENEZUELA.

A Cubagua Fisherman's House-The Dark
ness and smell-Familiarity Of the Hens
and Dogs-A Wonderful Stew - Corn
Dough Balls-shell Fish and Cocosnuts.
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tnem.
Poor little dears. the bitter tears ran down
their puny faces. From ear to ear in
grimy smear their knuckles left sad
trsces.
Each little Dress perfect mess, 30 rumpled-
y, twas shocking-and one small shoe
half hid from view meath an inverted
stocking.
While as they strayed each step they made
In WEAKNESS came tagging, and by q
string one little thing headless horse
was dragging.
6dl round about in thoughtless rout the ur-
chins were pursuing; asked, as they
thronged, where they belonged, were an
swered with boo-hoo-ing.
'"There, therer' said 1, '.pray do not cry''-
thus pleasantly accosted, one little lad
with visagesad exclaimed-"Pleath thir,
we's losted.
The other one when he had done, in tones
Of melancholy, cried "I-boo- hoo-is
losted too an l 'tant find my dolly"
''Where do you liver' They couldn't give
the slightest indication; or when they
tried they only cried q dismal explana-
tion.
sdn they had not their names forgot; this
might assist me, maybe. The youngster
said-'They tails me Ted, an sister is
dess BabyI'
Twas all they had the little lad from this
could not vary. "What's papa dor'
Papa, boo-hoo! lives in the cemetery"
Poor little dea1! they moved to tears, their
helpless situation, their looks of woe,
their sobs-ho-ho there came an inspi-
ration.
Strange there had not occurred this thought
most natural and handy: snow think"
said where do you buy your chewing
gum and candy"
Her eyes alight, with meaning bright, the
lass outstripped her brother. "Smifses r.
she said. from thence led those children
to their mother.
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GOOD COMPILATIONS.
THE SHRINE AT WHICH MEN PAY
WILLING TRIBUTE.

Always at the Command Of Those wh0
Have . Disposition to Acquire Them
Moth Patches and Their Cause.-The Dis
covery Of Young German Physician.
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0UIr0.
"A reporter.

A news-scenter-A reporter.
There Il good deal Of Surveying being
done by the girls as the summer resorts.
In one district Of Algeria, $1,000 gallons Of
srasshoppers' eggs have bean collected and
burned this year. The natives want to eggs
terminate the insects.
According to the Paris papsrs, Sara Bern
hasdt's pet tiger-cat has learned to tell Q
creditor - soon a. 1t sees him. What 1t tells
the creditor i not stated. but 1t il probably
''Call again."